Launch your own recruitment business for a few pounds – but does that do it?
The start point for your new company is of course to register it as a company. Sounds obvious, but it’s one of those things that’s so obvious it’s easy to forget.
And when you get to the point of doing it there’s always an ‘expert’ – often your mate Dave who once knew someone who knew someone who worked in a solicitor’s office, as an intern – who will tell you that ‘what you do’ is buy a company ‘off the shelf’ and you can ‘do it online now’ and it only costs ‘a few pounds’.
Well, Dave isn’t entirely wrong. It can be done. And it will probably be legal. The problem is you could find some massive holes where the Articles of Association and Share Certificates should be, and a very noticeable silence from what you’d hoped would be the ‘follow up advice’ and ‘what to do next’ departments.
The facts are that there’s a whole lot more to setting up a business than buying a company name, and lot of advice you need to hear on turning a legal necessity into a recruitment consultancy.
To begin with you need those Articles and Certificates to be sorted out and legal. Then, you may need to change the name of the company you bought to bring it in line with your brand ideas- and that will have to be legally addressed as well.
All of that comes before you actually get in to the exciting business of launching your business. Only then can you start making things happen.
At least you can if you’ve got the right finance behind you, and you’ve found premises, and you’ve sorted out your software and systems…….it’s all bit more complicated than you thought.
Except it needn’t be. The Recruit Venture Group exists specifically to help recruitment professionals to start up their own businesses. And we start at the very beginning. We’ll organise registration of your company for you. We’ll take care of the paperwork and ensure that it’s all legal.
Then we’ll provide a full finance package. You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary from your own company – in which you will have shares. You’ll draw dividends too.
We’ll sort your premises, work with you on your branding, and we’ll give you full access to our back office and software making you compliant and operational from day one.
All over the UK recruitment businesses are being set up with our support – and they’re going on to become very successful. If you’ve got five years recruitment experience and you want to give it a shot, don’t waste time buying a name for your company when you could be making a name for yourself?